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TSN
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Well, that's actually a ten, not an ex, but it works either way. Some guy thinks he's found another planet out past Pluto.

BBC News' article

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Sol System
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Keen!

I really have no basis for making this claim, but I'd lean toward the object, if it indeed exists, being a brown dwarf.

At any rate, if it is a planet, what do you think it should be named? Keeping in mind the tradition of naming worlds after Roman gods. Something cold...and very distant.

Or I suppose it could be named Mickey. Or Rupert.

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The_Tom
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*nod*

Some better coverage here:

Astronomy Now

ExploreZone

MSNBC

Wired

IMHO, the evidence seems pretty good. Let's hope this new IR telescope can spot something, or barring that, Hubble or a Radio Telescope.

Anyone care to start listing some Roman god names?

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TSN
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Cold and distant? They already did that. It's called Pluto. :-)

And, actually, it could be a god or a goddess, considering Venus. And, for that matter, Saturn and Uranus weren't gods, were they? Their Greek counterparts weren't, anyway...

Personally, I would suggest Proserpina, the Roman name for Persephone. Persephone was abducted by Hades (R. Pluto) and held as goddess of the underworld. I think it's appropriate because 1) the planet is closest to Pluto, 2) it's "cold and distant", as Sol put it, like the underworld, and 3) Proserpina was captured, as they suggest this planet was.

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Baloo
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I've heard theories of a similar object called "Nemesis" that disturbed the comets in the Oort cloud so they came close to the Sun. I don't know if that would fit in with the current scheme for naming planets, however.

--Baloo

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Sol System
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Ok, I was going to list a bunch of Roman deities, but I'll just provide a link or two instead.

At any rate, what about Terminus? He's listed as being the "guardian of the boundaries", which this object certainly appears to be. Plus, it makes for a cool Asimov reference.

A place to go for more.

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Jay the Obscure
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so, can we start calling you Helios...Mr. System?

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Montgomery
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This is quite interesting.
I don't think you could call this body, if it exists, a planet. It's 32000AU out! That's way into the Oort cloud. It does indeed sound like a brown dwarf, possibly a long-time traveller through space which has become "ensnared" in the sun's gravity and now just mumbles around bumping into protocomets. It'd be interesting to know just how many comets owe their existenxce to its influence.

If it needs a name, may I recall the once recommended name for a "Planet X".
Phersephone (Fer-sef-on-ee)
She was a princess held captive in the underworld by Pluto....
Ah, I see TSN is way ahead of me.

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Kosh
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Terminus if it turns out to be a planet, nemisis if a brown dwarf.

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Krenim
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Well, as much as I like the name Persephone (or however you spell it), it will probably be named Nemesis.

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First of Two
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some others which came to me:

Somnus / Hypnos, God of sleep
Morpheus (or Roman equivalent), God of dreams
Oneiros (or Roman equivalent), son of Dreams
Ops, wife of Saturn

But I think it'll come down to Persephone or Terminus... but what if they discover that Terminus ISN'T the last planet?

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I think I'll look up the name of the rouge planet in "Dragon Riders of Pern".

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The First One
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I don't remember it ever having a name. . . maybe in that prequel, I think. . .
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Jubilee
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The red star? ... it didn't have a name.....

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Elim Garak
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Nemesis sounds horribly corny...

Peresphore seems much more appropriate.

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